Document Type : Exploratory

Authors

1 Ph.D Candidate, Department of Human Resources Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Human Resources Management , University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

4 Associate Professor, Department of Management, University of Alzhra, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The fundamental condition of any construct architecture is attention to its cornerstone. Because not paying attention to cornerstone causes a faulty structure. In coaching process, antecedents can be regarded as cornerstone, influential factors that must be taken into consideration before doing coaching action. The purpose of this study has been identification of antecedents in coaching process. Research orientation was descriptive-exploratory and its approach is inductive. ethnography research strategy for collecting data and thematic analysis and MAXQDA software and for data analysis were applied. Study population was knowledge-based firms and the field of study for the implementation of ethnography strategy was Asan Pardakht company, as a leading company in payment industry. After data analysis, 198 codes, 12 sub-themes and 3 main themes (Problem finding and context preparing, Planning and Provisioning, informing and empowering) were identified as antecedents of coaching process. Finally, according to the results, some researches with different topics were proposed for future studies.

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